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ROR Chapter 3 Lesson Plan on Buhai from Romania.Lwp ROOTS OF RHYTHM WORLD DRUMMING TEACHER WORKSHOP 2006 LESSON PLAN FOR CHAPTER 3, pages 23-27 Buhai - Schloneger Nathalina Schloneger July 17, 2006 Canton, Ohio Title: The Buhai from Romania Grade Category: E 5 Lesson Time: several 30 minute class periods (held twice a week) Goals: 1. To learn facts about the country and culture of Romania. 2. To learn about the buhai drum from Romania. 3. To make and play a homemade version of the buhai drum. Objectives: Students will: 1. identify three facts about the buhai drum from Romania (as found in sentences 2, 5 and 9 on the ROR Chapter 3 Funsheet). 2. use voices to make the ox sounds as heard on Track 26 of the ROR Companion CD. 3. work with another person to create a homemade buhai drum. 4. play their own buhai drum with Track 28 of the ROR Companion CD. Content Standards: 1. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. 2. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments. 3. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. 4. Reading and notating music. 5. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. 6. Understanding music in relation to history and culture. Materials: 1. chart for listening to music 2. chart for country facts 3. handouts: Romanian Culture (ROR, p. 24) and Romanian Music: Instruments & Rhythms (ROR, pp. 24 & 25) 4. instrument making materials: markers and rolls of masking tape (at least 30), styrofoam cup with lid or can with plastic lid (one per student) 5. numbers 1-30 cut from the white paper Ellison machine and laminated onto construction paper (optional) 6. pencils (one per student) 7. post-it notes (one note per student) 8. poster set: The Continents (Frank Schaffer Publications: Chart Pack PLUS! Charts of all 7 Continents) ISBN: 07682-1575-7 9. Web site http://www.estcomp.ro/~cfg/home.html (Children’s Folk Games) 10. words and definitions for music word wall 11. worksheets for homework 12. Ammons, Dr. J. Mark, D.M.A. Musical Instruments of the World. Quincy, IL: Mark Twain Media, Inc, 2003. ISBN: 1-58037-252-X 13. Bond, Judy, et al. Share the Music Grade 5 Teacher’s Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN: 0-02-295380-9/5 14. Harnsberger, Lindsey C. Essential Dictionary of Music. Los Angeles, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., 1997. ISBN: 0-88284-728-7 15. Willis, Terri. Romania: Enchantment of the World. New York: Children’s Press, 2001. ISBN: 0-516-21635-X 16. Wojtanik, Andrew. Afghanistan To Zimbabwe: Country Facts That Helped Me Win the National Geographic Bee. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2005. 17. Woodfield, Marilee. Children Around the World: The Ultimate Class Field Trip. Key Education Publishing Company, LLC, 2006. ISBN: 1-93305-237-6 18. Woodson, Craig DeVere. Roots of Rhythm: Percussion Instrument Making Notes, Craig DeVere Woodson, 1998. 19. Roots of Rhythm Companion CD Percussion Marketing Council, 2004. 20. Woodson, Dr. Craig. Roots of Rhythm: Funsheets, Percussion Marketing Council, 2005. 21. Woodson, Dr. Craig. Roots of Rhythm: World Drumming for 5th and 6th grade Classrooms, Percussion Marketing Council, 2004. Student Skill Level: 1. Students can identify the seven continents of the world. 2. Students have studied one way that instruments are classified (by how they produce their individual sounds: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones and aerophones). Ammons, Dr. J. Mark, D.M.A. Musical Instruments of the World, pp. 5 & 6. Procedure: 1. Listen to Music y Ask students to listen to three short pieces and think about what they hear. y After hearing each track, use a pencil to fill in a Music Listening Chart (see page 4 of lesson plan). y Play ROR Companion CD Track 26 (:40), Track 27 (1:12) and Track 28 (2:01), pausing between each track to give students a chance to fill in their observations. y After hearing all three tracks, ask students to put a star beside the name of the piece they liked the best. 2. Country Flag, Background and History y Tell students that the three pieces they just heard featured an instrument from the country of Romania called the buhai. y Have students look at the Poster Set: The Continents to determine where they will find the country of Romania. y Have students work in small groups and use information on pp. 276-278 in Afghanistan To Zimbabwe to list facts for the country of Romania. y As a class, read the information about the flag of Romania in ROR, p. 23. y For extra information about the Romanian flag, see p. 70 in Romania: Enchantment of the World. 3. Music: Instruments and Rhythms y Discuss the music of Romania using information in ROR, pp. 23-24. 4. Music Word Wall y Add the following words to classroom music word wall: ballad, buhai, disco, folk music, folk song, improvise, jazz, rock. 5. Homework y Assign students homework (coloring countries which border Romania) to be completed before the next music class. 6. History y Divide the class into four groups. Announce that each group will read a handout and then each person in the group will find one interesting fact and will use a pencil to write it on a post-it note. y Have 2 groups read the information (handout) about Romanian Culture given in ROR, p. 24. Have the other 2 groups read the information (handout) about Romanian Music: Instruments & Rhythms given in ROR, pp. 24 & 25. y Each student will write their fact on a post-it note with their first and last name at the bottom of the note. y All students will put their post-it notes on the chalk board under the correct heading Culture or Music: Instruments & Rhythms and then return to their seat. 7. Games From Romania y Teach the Romanian children’s folk game, Oranges. y “Number students from 1 up. The leader begins the game by calling any number. He/she will say, for instance: “I need seven oranges.” The child whose number is called must answer at once with another number, e.g. “Why seven and not ten?” to which the player no. 10 must reply immediately with another number: “Why ten and not two?” And so on. Those who fail to answer immediately or call a number, which is out of the game, are dropped out. The game may continue until all but one player have been eliminated. To help the children, the numbers given to the players are written on cardboard at the beginning of the game and they are crossed out one by one, when the respective player is dropped from the game.” (see Web site as listed above in Materials #10.) y Additional suggestions for playing the game: Give each student a number cut from the Ellison letter machine and laminated on construction paper to place at their feet to help them remember their number for the game. Have students who have been dropped from the game sit and quietly keep the beat on rhythm sticks until there is a winner. y Teach a Romanian game with tempo songs and gestures of hands. “The game is played by two or more children. They clap hands according to the tempo of the song they are singing and they can also make different gestures with their hands. Example: 1. Clap your hands once, then clap hands with the other children, clap your hands again, and so on. .” (see Web site as listed above in Materials #10.) 8. Make Your Own Instrument y Using the numbers given for the game, Oranges, pair students in twos and have the odd numbered students collect the materials (styrofoam cup with plastic lid and masking tape) and tools (markers) needed to make the buhai. If there is a student without a partner, have that student be the honored assistant who will help demonstrate how to make the instrument, using ROR: Percussion Instrument Making Notes, p. 4 9. Play Your Own Instrument y Have students notate the sounds of the buhai using various dots and shaped lines on the ROR TUBS notation sheet (found in ROR, p. 81). y Listen and follow the notation in ROR, p. 25 to play homemade buhai instruments along with the ROR Companion CD Track #28 Buhai - notation of ox sounds (:50). Student Product: 1. Students will create a chart of facts about Romania. 2. Students will color a flag of Romania using the correct colors. 3. Students will label the capital city of Romania as well as bordering countries and sea on a blank map. 4. Students will make a homemade buhai. 5. Students will notate the sounds of a buhai instrument using graphic shapes. Assessment: 1. Students will produce a chart of facts about Romania. 2. Students will finish a homework paper (color the flag, label the capital city, the countries and sea which surround Romania). 3. Students will complete ROR Chapter 3 Funsheet: Find Facts and Opinions: The Buhai. 4. Students will follow their notation and play their homemade buhai with the ROR Companion CD Track #28 Buhai - notation of ox sounds (:50). Reflection: 1. This lesson will promote student learning by engaging students in actively researching facts about another country, culture and musical instrument. 2. Students will be challenged to play their own instrument creatively as they listen to and make music with others. Resources: 1. Have students write an original poem about the Buhai after reading the poem Places and Names: A Traveler’s Guide as found in Lewis, J. Patrick. A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2002.
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